Reigning Premier League champions Leicester equalised through Jamie Vardy as he capitalised on a soft Marouane Fellaini back-pass but it was left to Ibrahimovic to mark his first appearance with the victor.
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“No pre-season in China, a very bad pre-season, so I think step by step we are changing, but I think it’s always important to start with a trophy”. The only one I can compare is Milan.
“That’s what it’s all about, winning trophies”, he said.
And the arrival of French midfielder Paul Pogba from Juventus, after a seemingly epic pursuit, was confirmed before the kick-off.
“It feels good to be in Manchester United and this is what counts”, Ibrahimovic explained to MUTV.
It did not take too long for the new coach Jose Mourinho to win his first title with United. This is my 31st trophy.
Fonte told Portuguese publication O Jogo: “Southampton are a good club in England, where I’ve been treated very well, we have been successful”.
“That will start at Bournemouth next week and then the next game and the next if we win”.
It could also be a comment about Real Madrid, who went on to the win the Champions League under Carlo Ancelotti in 2014, the year after Mourinho left the club.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic celebrates his match-winner against Leicester in the Community Shield.
Lingard, who scored the winning goal in the FA Cup final at Wembley last season, said: “He’s given us a license to mix positions”.
“I enjoyed and watched the same team as last season, only the result is against us”.
Jamie Vardy made it a well-contested game when he took advantage of a sloppy back pass by Marouane Fellaini to round United goalkeeper David de Gea and slotted into an empty net to knot the scores at 1-1 in the 52nd minute.
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Van Gaal was often criticised for encouraging a more prosaic style during his United spell and it looks like the attacking players are relieved Mourinho is in charge as Lingard suggests. Some of these guys today they have one week of training – Martial, Ibrahimovic, Fellaini. Having vowed to win a trophy in his first match with United, he duly did so by rising to meet Valencia’s cross and deliver the first silverware of the Mourinho era.
